Once the longtime home to Washington Square Bar & Grill — and lately known more as turnstile for food and drink concepts — the space will soon become a Christmas-themed pop-up bar called Deck the Halls.

Slated to run from Nov. 24 through the New Year, the holiday bar is joint venture between Nick Floulis (Chubby Noodle) Ken Luciano (Forgery) and Shaher Misif (Cantina).

According to the team, it will be a quirky, whimsical place with Christmas-themed cocktails and the decor of a “toy store meets comfy lodge meets penguin paradise.”

Make of that what you will.

“People dress up the bars here but there’s nothing like purely Christmas or holiday-based like this,” says Floulis, a North Beach native.

Rolling the dice on the beleaguered space across Columbus from Washington Square Park was an easy choice, he says, mainly because of its history. Since the 1970s, the address has been best known as the Washington Square Bar & Grill.

Between the dot-com bubble of the mid-2000s and 2014, it became Cobalt, then a second and third iteration of Washington Square Bar & Grill (or “Washbag” as Chronicle columnist Herb Caen called it), followed by Bottle Cap and most recently Teague Moriarty and Matt McNamara’sthe Square, which closed earlier this year.

Even Floulis had a few stops and starts with the project, which will be named Lillie Coit’s when it properly opens next year. The liquor license was originally transferred to Floulis when his business was called Willi’s Coffee and Flowers. A website appeared shortly thereafter before quickly being taken down. That was all scrapped and it looks as though the latest concept will stick.

For the unfamiliar, the restaurant is named after Lillie Coit, “the patron saint of all pioneer firemen of the city.” An opening date hasn’t been set. Floulis says it’s too early to release details but we do know Elmer Mejicanos, bar manager at Capo’s, is involved.